Ivan Denisovich. This watercolor went pretty quickly and I think I could spend some more time on it now that I am looking at it on the screen. I like it, but I’m not sure if I shouldn’t go back in on it and turn the volume up to 11.

So this is my problem. I start off drawing books with the full intention of treating them loosely; I do a couple of things that I really like and all of a sudden I tighten up for as long as the book lasts. In this spread, for example, the two…

This is of a friend/friend’s wife. The sun was shining through the window and reflecting off the pew in front of her; that’s where the underlighting is coming from. I was very happy with this drawing – especially as it was done during Sunday school!

These don’t really go together, but I like the way they seem to have some kind of quasi-relationship on the page, especially with the stark white background and the way the deer’s neck lines up with the woman’s collar.

So I don’t normally show these drawings to the folks I draw. The few times I have shown them to the people I have drawn, they have been either totally nonplussed or outright upset that I would draw them. So, as I have almost no fear that these will be…